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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED333094 AUTHOR: Papalewis, Rosemary; And Others
TITLE: Preparing School Administrators for the Culturally
and Linguistically Diverse. A Formal Mentor Training
Program in Progress.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 27 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association (Chicago, IL,
April, 1991).
ABSTRACT: Mentoring is the focal point of this innovative
program, established in 1987, for the preparation of school
principals. The program emphasizes learning through field
experience and close collaboration between participating
universities and local school administrative systems.
Experienced administrators are chosen to serve as mentors
for candidates in the administrative preservice training
program. Mentors receive special training to prepare
minority group candidates. Mentors are selected on the
basis of recommendations of district superintendents and
are matched with proteges regardless of sex or race.
Mentors and proteges are administered the Alleman Mentoring
Scales Questionnaire, the Mentoring Styles Indicator for
Educational Administrators, and the Protege Needs Survey as
pre- and post-training assessment. Mentors and proteges are
familiarized with the techniques of mentoring and the
overall goals of the mentoring program during a training
workshop. The development of both mentors and proteges is
tracked throughout the program using structured interviews
and journals. The following results are reported: (1)
mentor behaviors identified by proteges; (2) descriptions
of mentoring relationships by proteges; (3) descriptions of
proteges by mentors; and (4) descriptions of struggling
with mentors and developing informal mentoring
relationships by proteges. Protege interview questions and
examples of protege feelings, insights, and problems are
included. A list of 37 references is appended. (FMW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Educational-Innovation; Elementary
Secondary-Education; Higher-Education; Professional
Development
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrator-Education; *Interpersonal
Relationship; *Management-Development; *Mentors-;
*Principals-
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